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Here's a game that may appeal to all you fans of Scrabble, Boggle, Perquackey, and those "Jumble" puzzles that appear in the newspapers. It's called Cephword!
How does it work? Very simple, gang: I or one of the other players posts ANY long ceph-related word. Then everyone tries to find as many words (3 letters and up) which can be made from it. To make things more of a challenge, and to avoid duplication, for each given puzzle a player may post no more than ten words in each of the following categories:
- 3 letters
- 4 letters
- 5 letters
- 6 letters or more
None of the words may duplicate entries previously posted for a given puzzle. Both singular and plural forms of a word may be used. For words with two possible spellings (e.g., "favor" or "favour"), you may use whichever one is most familiar to you, but not both. You may not use proper names, capitalized place names, scientific genus or species names as answers (though you may use them as puzzle starter words).
All entries may be challenged by other players, but s/he must present proof using either a dictionary or an online reference. Any challenger or challengee who is proven incorrect, gets only half a bucket of krill at feeding time for a week. Submitting blatantly misspelled or obviously made-up words (e.g., "oktopuss" or "gringendoodleplatz") is punishable by gang tomato'ing.
If there are any rules I haven't covered here, I invite my fellow TONMOers to add their own or amend the existing ones.
Ready to play? Here's the first puzzle, and my words (remember, only ten words per word-length per player):
ARCHITEUTHIS
art
rat
tar
sit
his
car
tic
hit
hat
cat
arts
rats
tars
sits
scar
tics
hits
hats
cats
star
carts
start
tarts
chits
chats
chart
teach
cheat
crest
tears
stitch
arches
atheist
starch
stretch
charts
cheats
treats
earths
traces
OK, who's next? Wanted: More takers for ARCHITEUTHIS!
The Tanster
How does it work? Very simple, gang: I or one of the other players posts ANY long ceph-related word. Then everyone tries to find as many words (3 letters and up) which can be made from it. To make things more of a challenge, and to avoid duplication, for each given puzzle a player may post no more than ten words in each of the following categories:
- 3 letters
- 4 letters
- 5 letters
- 6 letters or more
None of the words may duplicate entries previously posted for a given puzzle. Both singular and plural forms of a word may be used. For words with two possible spellings (e.g., "favor" or "favour"), you may use whichever one is most familiar to you, but not both. You may not use proper names, capitalized place names, scientific genus or species names as answers (though you may use them as puzzle starter words).
All entries may be challenged by other players, but s/he must present proof using either a dictionary or an online reference. Any challenger or challengee who is proven incorrect, gets only half a bucket of krill at feeding time for a week. Submitting blatantly misspelled or obviously made-up words (e.g., "oktopuss" or "gringendoodleplatz") is punishable by gang tomato'ing.
If there are any rules I haven't covered here, I invite my fellow TONMOers to add their own or amend the existing ones.
Ready to play? Here's the first puzzle, and my words (remember, only ten words per word-length per player):
ARCHITEUTHIS
art
rat
tar
sit
his
car
tic
hit
hat
cat
arts
rats
tars
sits
scar
tics
hits
hats
cats
star
carts
start
tarts
chits
chats
chart
teach
cheat
crest
tears
stitch
arches
atheist
starch
stretch
charts
cheats
treats
earths
traces
OK, who's next? Wanted: More takers for ARCHITEUTHIS!
The Tanster